HANS STOISSER
Communities – What we can learn from Africa
Lively communities distinguish African from Western societies. They enable people to navigate through a world of uncertainty. In times of COVID, can we in the West learn from this?
Category Management and Leadership
Managing in a new VUCA world
African companies will also be hit very hard by the impacts of this pandemic. However, African companies are much more used to a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment.
“Hysteresis” – What will not go back to normal
How the pandemic might change our interlinked global society. The level of interconnectedness will not decrease compared to the pre-pandemic level but increase. However, it will be different.
An experiment at the Learning Journey – What we can learn from China
End of January we were 18 Mzungus visiting Nairobi. It was the third so called "Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah" making us explore "Digital Africa", "Urban Africa" and possibilities for "Co-Creation". We went for an experiment and checked in at the Madaraka railway, Kenya's first big infrastructure investment built by China.
Turning a crisis into an opportunity
Cape Town is running out of water. DAY ZERO - the day when water reserves are at zero - is approaching. For three consecutive years rainfalls were less than normal. But it is not the missing rainfall, reasons for the water shortage in the urban agglomeration of 3,8 million people go deeper, says the Economist. It is a ...
Africa, the next factory of the world
The African industrialization through Chinese entrepreneurs, that is the theses put forward by Irene Yuan Sun. Her new book "The next factory of the world - How Chinese Investment is reshaping Africa" ....
Ten tips to start a business in Africa
This article has been published in full length for the first time in German language in the BUSINESSART magazine in September 2017. READY TO MOUNT A VULCANO? Some of us have already ascended a volcano. If they succeeded and made…
Kenya is worth the trip
Did you notice that elections in Kenya disappeared from media coverage in Austria/Germany before the exact outcome was resolved? Learn what determines African societies and economies. Watch out for opportunities to cooperate.
First Innovation, then Regulation
First Innovation, then Regulation – What we can learn from Africa “You can not innovate under regulation. You have to take risks”, says Bitange Ndemo, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication in Kenya. He knows. During his time in government, from 2005…
Software is eating the world – about African innovation
Software is eating the world – about African innovation “Why software is eating the world” has been the title of a famous essay by Marc Andreessen in the Wall Street Journal in 2011. Being in Nairobi, I have been heavily reminded…